The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 95
And he told them all his adventures, and how he had escaped from his enemy.
Who acts: tree · What happens: tell, escape, adventure · To what, where: adventures, others, enemy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 adventures | det:predet |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 adventures | nmod:poss |
| 7 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 told | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 escaped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 escaped | cc |
| 10 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 escaped | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 escaped | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 escaped | aux |
| 13 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 told | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 enemy | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 16 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 escaped | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | tree | tree's adventures | others = other | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient adventure=Topic | |||
| 2 | escape | past · perfect | tree | tree's enemy | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from enemy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | adventure | tree | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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